👩‍🏭 👨‍🏭 “Model factories” improve productivity in Turkey. SMEs in Turkey have benefited from productivity gains of up to 100 percent thanks to training and advisory services received from “model factories” that UNDP has established in major Turkish cities in partnership with the Ministry of Industry and Technology.

📈 Learn & Transform Programmes implemented in Kayseri, Konya and Ankara Model Factories boost manufacturing SMEs’ productivity and competitiveness.

🌦 We have left behind the month of August during which we felt the impacts of climate change intensely. Climate change adaptation strategy and action plans are prepared for disaster-hit Samsun and Muğla.

🏙 UNDP Turkey held a workshop with broad participation in Ankara as part of its work for the development and implementation of local service delivery standards for the first time in Turkey under its Local Administration Reform Phase III Project.

🍎 Ceyda Alpay, Head of Experimentation of our Accelerator Lab, wrote on their urban farming experiment which started with research on food security and evolved into an urban garden project.

🚴🌱 Towards sustainable urban farming and improved food security, we support composting initiatives. Gülşah Eker, Head of Solutions Mapping of our Accelerator Lab wrote about the “Pedal for Soil” project which is a success story of using organic waste to feed the soil and provide food to those in need.

🌿 The agricultural biodiversity of the Mount Ida and Edremit Gulf region will be protected by creating a prosumer economy, with the support of SGP Turkey. You may check out the products and producers on the North Aegean Market.

📢 New Horizons October 2021 is out!

🌍 WAKE UP WORLD

🌄 #COP26, Sea of Marmara, mucilage and DAMOC report, Clearing 83,000 landmines, #Climateeducation at Darüşşafaka, Open Space Gökçeada and more in our new issue.

👩‍🔬 👷‍♀️ Take a step to be one of the Engineer Girls of Turkey! You may apply by 10 October for the Engineer Girls of Turkey programme which supports female students who are studying at the engineering faculties on the way to achieving their dreams.

🌍 Countdown began for the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) which will bring together the whole world in Glasgow on 31 October - 12 November to muster the collective will to accelerate efforts to cope with climate change.

📽 What would you like to say to world leaders if you had the chance to tell them how you are affected by the climate crisis? As UNDP, ahead of COP26, we invite you to share your videos on dearworldleaders.org and make your voice heard clearly by decision makers.

📣 World’s most urgent challenges were addressed at the 76th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA). “With humanity on the edge of an abyss, and moving in the wrong direction, the world must wake up.” said António Guterres to world leaders.

💉 At the UNDP special event as part of the UNGA, it was emphasized that achieving “A Shot for All” is not a luxury, but rather an urgent global development priority.

🇹🇷 has has ratified the Paris Agreement!
We invite you all to COP26 Special Conversations in Climate-ish to join the call: #COP26TimeToAct for #NetZero!

👉 http://youtu.be/oYKhiav2SJU

☀️ More than US$400 billion was committed to boost renewable and clean energy by governments and the private sector during the UN High-level Dialogue on Energy.

⏩ UNDP Strategic Plan 2022-2025 aiming to bring the Global Goals back within reach in the next four years, has been announced.

Turkey was shaken in August with the news of mucilage in the Sea of Marmara. Though, this is not a new nor an unpredicted problem. It is only one of the symptoms occurred as a result of the practices that have been implemented since 1989.

In 1971, exactly 50 years ago, DAMOC report presented by UNDP and WHO offered comprehensive solutions to the problems of urban wastewater management of Istanbul.

In a period when mucilage is the indicator of the Sea of Marmara dying before our eyes, we spoke with Hydrobiologist Levent Artüz who has been leading the research of Marmara Environmental Monitoring Project (MAREM) since 1993, on the mucilage problem and the DAMOC report.

🦖🌍 #DontChooseExtinction!

New Horizons November issue is out. 🗞
You can find Frankie the dino's speech at the UN General Assembly, support to waste management in Gaziantep, Let's Talk Climate #COP26 Special Session and more in this issue.

🤝 The European Union and UNDP launched a €18.6-million project that will clear 83,000 landmines from along Turkey’s eastern border by January 2023.

📽 How is the climate crisis impacting you? What do you want to tell world leaders at COP26? Our Goodwill Ambassador Mert Fırat is inviting you to send your video messages on dearworldleaders.org and make your voice heard by decision makers.

📣 According to the G20 Peoples' Climate Vote 2021 survey by UNDP and the University of Oxford, 73 percent of young people in Turkey know this is a climate emergency. 64 percent want to conserve forests and land, 64 percent want more solar, wind and renewable power, and 62 percent want climate-friendly farming.

👪 The 2021 Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) reveals stark inequalities among ethnic groups. UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner said in his statement for 17 October International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, that in 2020 alone, up to 100 million people were pushed into poverty because of COVID-19.